this part is really nasty :
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Yahoo!'s practice is to include web beacons in HTML-formatted email
messages (messages that include graphics) that Yahoo!, or its agents,
sends in order to determine which email messages were opened and to
note whether a message was acted upon.
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don't use Yahoo mail I guess...
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:46:37 -0000, clive-harris
<clive-harris@ntlworld.com> wrote:
quoted 49 lines Dear all,
> Dear all,
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> I got this email from one of the Yahoo groups that I'm a member of. I thought you might be interested - in the interests of stopping "Big Brother-ness"!. Obviously, I don't know if any of you are members of any Yahoo groups, but I had to pass it on.
>
> Clive
>
> - - - - - - -
>
> "Hi folks,
>
> In case you are interested in protecting your online privacy: Yahoo
> is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group
> users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are
> going - similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and
> every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy
> statement: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
> http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
>
> About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will
> see a link that says web beacons.
> Click on the phrase "web beacons":
> http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html
>
> That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo
> Network." In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt
> out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of
> snooping. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.
>
> Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page.
> Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button
> that, if clicked, will *undo** the opt-out.
>
> Feel free to forward this to other groups."
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> a.. To visit your group on the web, go to:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cabaretvoltaire/
>
> b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> cabaretvoltaire-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
>
>
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